
Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers

Vikings: Raiders, Traders and Settlers is a University of Oxford online course authored and tutored by David Beard FSA.
The course runs over a period of ten weeks, with one unit per week.
The ten units are as follows:
Unit 1: Origins – Scandinavia in the pre-Viking period
Unit 2: Viking society and the beginnings of expansion
Unit 3: The Vikings in Europe – the early raids
Unit 4: The Vikings in Europe – conquest and settlement
Unit 5: Western expansion – the settlement of the Faeroes,
Orkney, Shetland and Iceland
Unit 6: Trade routes to the east and south
Unit 7: Greenland and Vinland – the Viking expansion westwards
Unit 8: Pagan religions and the change to Christianity
Unit 9: Art and literature
Unit 10: The end of the Viking era
You can find further information about this course here…
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